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10 missing in southwest China colliery gas blast
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-15 15:07 KUNMING -- Ten people were trapped after a coal mine gas explosion Friday morning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said. It happened around 5:50 a.m. at Chashan Coal Mine of Zhenxiong County in the city of Zhaotong. Thirteen people were working at the time. Three had been rescued as of 11:30 a.m., a county government spokesman said. Rescue work is continuing and the cause of the explosion is under investigation. |